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Brigadier General John Nicholson, CB (11 December 1822 – 23 September 1857) was an Anglo-Irish military officer who rose to prominence during his career in British India.
Jul 19, 2018 · Brigadier-General John Nicholson was a British officer in India between 1839 and 1857. wikipedia. It does not fall to many of us to be worshipped as a living god, but that was the fate of...
- Sean Lang
Sep 19, 2024 · John Nicholson was a British soldier and administrator who brought relief to Delhi during the Indian Mutiny of 1857–58. Nicholson became a cadet in the Bengal Army at the age of 17 and fought at Ghaznī during the First Afghan War (1839–42).
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Mar 29, 2022 · Nicholson was a product of the evangelical revival in the Church of Ireland in the early nineteenth century and considered himself as Irish, speaking with an ascendancy accent. He tends to be portrayed in this biography more as an Ulsterman.
It does not fall to many of us to be worshipped as a living god, but that was the fate of John Nicholson, a 19th century British army officer in the service of the East India Company.
- Sean Lang
Oct 14, 2018 · John Nicholson. Nicholson’s effectiveness came as much from intelligence gathering and cunning as it did from brute force. One evening, he learned from his contacts that Indian cooks were planning on poisoning a group of British officers.
Aug 27, 2018 · Nikal Seyn was, in fact, an Irish soldier called John Nicholson. Even more remarkably, the cult lived on into the 21st century. John Nicholson responded to the adulation by having his followers...
